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‘Manon’ – Lust in a time of war on MUBI and Arrow

!Featured, Arrow, based on a novel, Blu-ray, drama, International Classics, international noir, literary adaptation, MUBI, SVOD 05/24/2023 Sean Axmaker

The heat of war collides with the heat of desire in Henri-Georges Clouzot’s adaptation of “Manon Lescaut,” moved from 18th century Paris to Nazi-occupied France.

‘Basket Case’ – a Cain and Abel sideshow horror on Criterion Channel, Shudder, Arrow, and more

!Featured, AMC+, American Independent Cinema, Arrow, Blu-ray, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, Fandor, Free, Halloween, horror, Kanopy, Shudder, SVOD 10/25/2022 Sean Axmaker

Frank Henenlotter’s gruesome little cult indie-horror drama of brotherly love is the director’s memorable and inventive tribute to the grindhouse horror films he loves.

The second film in Dario Argento's "Three Mothers" trilogy is his most abstractly beautiful

Dario Argento’s ‘Inferno’ on Criterion Channel, MUBI, Shudder and more

!Featured, AMC+, Arrow, Blu-ray, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, Free, giallo, Halloween, horror, Kanopy, Shudder, SVOD 10/21/2022 Sean Axmaker

The sequel to the original ‘Suspiria,’ set in an ominous New York apartment building, is a mystery with the logic of a dream and the vivid style that made Argento’s reputation.

Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 2001 horror film from Japan is one of his greatest

Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s haunting horror film ‘Pulse’ on Prime Video, MUBI, AMC+, and more

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, AMC+, Arrow, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Free, Halloween, Hoopla, horror, International Cinema, Kanopy, MUBI, supernatural, suspense, SVOD 10/20/2022 Sean Axmaker

The meditative and metaphysical horror cinema of Kiyoshi Kurosawa made him one of the masters of modern Japanese horror. This haunting tale is one of his greatest works, perhaps his best.

‘Tetsuo: The Iron Man’ – Japanese cyberpunk on Criterion Channel, Shudder, and more

!Featured, AMC+, Arrow, Blu-ray, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, Halloween, horror, International Cinema, Kanopy, Science Fiction, Shudder, SVOD 10/19/2022 Sean Axmaker

Shinya Tsukamoto’s manga-influenced cyberpunk vision reimagines the marriage of flesh and technology as a surreal waking dream.

‘Audition’ – Takashi Miike’s horror masterpiece on Fandor and Arrow and free on Kanopy

!Featured, Arrow, based on a novel, Blu-ray, DVD, Fandor, Free, Halloween, horror, International Cinema, Kanopy, SVOD 10/18/2022 Sean Axmaker

What begins as a gentle romance based on a lie turns into a disturbed and disturbing psycho-horror nightmare that rockets into the Twilight Zone of obsession, sadism, and mutilation.

‘Ringu’ – the original ‘Ring’ on AMC+, Shudder, and Arrow

!Featured, AMC+, Arrow, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Halloween, horror, International Cinema, Shudder, supernatural, SVOD 10/17/2022 Sean Axmaker

Hideo Nakata’s eerie 1998 thriller about a mysterious, unsettling videotape that kills everyone who watches it seven days later is an urban legend turned skin-crawling psycho-thriller.

Last chance: ‘The Bird with the Crystal Plumage’ – Dario Argento begins on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Arrow, Blu-ray, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, giallo, horror, International Cinema, Last chance 09/21/2021 Sean Axmaker

The directorial debut of Dario Argento sets the tone and style for his baroque horror films and the genre he helped define: giallo.

Herschell Gordon Lewis – The Godfather of Gore on Criterion Channel

!Featured, American Independent Cinema, Blu-ray, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, Halloween, horror, SVOD 10/27/2019 Sean Axmaker

Herschell Gordon Lewis was a filmmaker with the mind of a promoter, which only makes sense coming from his background of marketing and salesmanship. So when he saw an opportunity, he pounced. After jumping into filmmaking with a series of “nudie cutie” sexploitation films, he and producer David F. Friedman inaugurated an entirely new genre […]

Sid Haig, Jill Banner, and Beverly Washburn star in Jack Hill's cult classic

The cult movie madness of ‘Spider Baby’ on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Comedy, Cult Movies, DVD, horror, SVOD 09/23/2019 Sean Axmaker

Spider Baby (1967) is one of the greatest blasts of creative B-movie inspiration to hit American drive-ins and grindhouses. It was the solo directorial debut of Jack Hill, a low-budget film that was financed by real estate developers who wanted to get into the movie business and got stuck in limbo for years when the […]